Destructive Staffroom Discourse

Holts first book How Children Fail set in motion the education reform of the 1960s. Holt illuminated the plethora of problems in cookie-cutter mainstream schools, such as the culture of the fear of failure. This qualitative study examines the concept of the Destructive Staffroom Discourse in mainstr...

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Main Authors: Jonathan PITT, Kristian KIRKWOOD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nipissing University 2009-07-01
Series:Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning
Online Access: https://jual.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/06/v3152.pdf
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spelling doaj-4b0cded5dac6438bb60531eb9bc0fcb72020-11-24T23:43:10ZengNipissing UniversityJournal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning1916-81282009-07-01351630v3152Destructive Staffroom DiscourseJonathan PITTKristian KIRKWOODHolts first book How Children Fail set in motion the education reform of the 1960s. Holt illuminated the plethora of problems in cookie-cutter mainstream schools, such as the culture of the fear of failure. This qualitative study examines the concept of the Destructive Staffroom Discourse in mainstream elementary schools as an impairment to the atmosphere necessary for learning to occur. https://jual.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/06/v3152.pdf
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